Update: Problems with Oricoco silver

[Dave Bonhoff]

Thanks for the reply Nathan!

I have used an SMC card to test the network, as well as other users 
having no problems.  Nothing wrong with the network.  I had a coworker 
with a PC laptop flash the firmware on the card today to 8.72.1 and the 
card worked for about 40 min or so before becoming unstable.  With the 
new firmware, the power LED remains on while the card is powered (this 
is a change from the older 8.10 firmware), but the card looses the 
signal repeatedly until it reports that it is out of range.  If I click 
'apply now' in the preference pane it reports <Searching for 
Network...>.

If I power the card down and remove it, once it has been out for a 
while it begins working again.  I'm not sure if this is a hardware 
issue, possibly related to heat, or a software issue.  I'm leaning 
towards software since the card worked fine using the open source 
wireless driver (in OS X.2.8) and in X.3.2 with the IOXperts driver 
until I put my Lombard to sleep with the card active, a few hours after 
registering the driver!

The fact that flashing the firmware to a newer revision has made such a 
dramatic change in operation further strengthens this feeling.  The 
complete lack of communication, so far, from IOXperts support isn't 
encouraging though...

Thanks again for the reply!
Dave

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Albert Einstein


On 20-Jan-04, at 12:01, nathan shaffer wrote:

> Just a thought - have you checked that this might be a wireless 
> frequency problem....i.e. you have 2 WAPs dialed into the same channel 
> or does you wireless network function fine with another piece of 
> hardware.  Also, I did have problems with my network and my 2.4GHZ 
> phone.  I replaced the phone with a 5.8Ghz.  Could someone else have a 
> WAP within range on same freq. perhaps?
>
> My Orinoco gold works fine on my Lombard.  10.2.8.
>
> Nathan Shaffer
> nathan at grandvache.com
>
> On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, at 12:06 AM, Dave Bonhoff wrote:
>
>> Just because it was sitting there, I inserted the card and it powered 
>> right up and connected to my network.  The connection lasted for 
>> about 2 minutes until there was a burst of activity indicated by the 
>> LED.  Then the pref pane reported that the network was out of range.  
>> I clicked 'apply now' and the power LED on the card went out and the 
>> pref pane reported once again <Searching for Network...>.  Now it is 
>> back to just flashing the LED's.
>>
>> I don't know...
>> Dave
>>
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>> different results.
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